What a headline in @washingtonpost : New Zealand https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇿" title="Flag of New Zealand" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of New Zealand"> isn& #39;t just flattening the curve on #Covid_19; it& #39;s squashing it". Indeed there are grounds for optimism that NZ& #39;s approach of moving to elimination is working: lockdown/test/contact trace/detect/ isolate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/new-zealand-isnt-just-flattening-the-curve-its-squashing-it/2020/04/07/6cab3a4a-7822-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asi...

NZ& #39;s #Covid_19 lockdown is also underpinned by social protection, including wage subsidies, & business support measures. Extraordinary measures for extraordinary times. Distressing to hear voices of poorest elsewhere fearing that they will die of hunger before dying of Covid-19.

For detailed information about New Zealand& #39;s https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇿" title="Flag of New Zealand" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of New Zealand">measures to fight #Covid_19https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe">, see special government website. @who @DianeVergara_ @davidnabarro http://covid19.govt.nz"> http://covid19.govt.nz 

Alastair Campbell on the leadership required to fight #Covid_19 which is being shown in NZ by @jacindaardern: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12323335">https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/n...

Economies can recover. The dead can& #39;t.